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are you sure? if you have half a brain you would conclude it's possible it's still covid because of an internet rumor.

lol a dick measuring contest? you have a guy insinuating a guy has COVID and then saying he's not saying that and then saying he might be but maybe not. That type of posting is just obnoxious, nothing else to it.

I never said he was with the team; in fact, I said he wasn't but was likely on his way since CIshek said he wasn't. I said there's no proof or evidence he has COVID outside of the rumor you started after claiming you didn't want to speculate and start a rumor. My lord.

Guy said he didn't want to start any rumors and then started a rumor. Hard to take much of what he said seriously when he won't actually say anything. At the end, he'll be right regardless I guess. He was sick. It was said to be non-covid related. Him not traveling seems as simple as not risking getting others sick. Traveling by himself makes sense. Until official word is stated otherwise, I feel that is the safest conclusion given that the guy people are using as their benchmark has said he wasn't going to start a rumor.

What are we hearing and from who? Maybe I missed it.

i mean, unless he's lying, he figured that out from instagram stories, a hype video and practice that he wasn't with the team currently. You are somehow conflating that to mean that Abreu has COVID, because the guy who said he didn't want to start/spread any rumors has practically implied he has COVID and started the rumor.

Hasn't he said repeatedly he has no idea and doesn't want to spread rumors? lol

Vastly? I'd disagree. You're talking 3-4% at most imo. Abreu is probably worth about 5-7 cents against the game line.

Pretty crazy to think you couldn't beat a team because you lost one player. This isn't the NBA. Of course they could beat Houston with Abreu.

Yeah, wouldn't be weird at all if he was under the weather and they didn't want to risk getting anyone else sick so he traveled by himself.

All is well, NotCishek tweeted that Abreu isn't with the team so that means he's likely on his way and everything will be fine. NotCischek is never right.

Do the Astros really need to prepare for keuchel? If anything we should say we're pitching Dallas in hopes of the Astros throwing a party and getting too hammered.

I'm not sure what you're asking. They're going to prepare for the pitchers they're going to face. The order they face them is pretty meaningless. There are no games being played right now. The analysis of the data and information is being done for the series, not for the order the Sox chose to throw their guys. That's all I'm saying.

Regular season is over. Advance scouts scout based on all pitchers in a rotation. The scouting report on the guys the Sox are pitching is out. The order of which they pitch is entirely meaningless. The Sox aren't going to be throwing some unknown arm out there. The Astros aren't going to prepare differently for the series based on the order the White Sox decide to throw their pitchers. I've got no issue with LaRussa waiting - because who cares, honestly? - but playing this off as optimal strategy is comical. Nothing changes. The same guys are going to play. There are no secret weapons waiting in the wings that the Astros don't know about.

yeah, Houston has no idea what pitchers are going to throw. It's top secret. Heard Black Jack might be coming out of retirement. Serious question, do you think you go into the series differently as the Astros if Lynn goes game 1 instead of Giolito?

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Sox are the better team. Playing better baseball, with the better overall pitching staff. It's a short series so who knows what will happen, but I like our chances.

Parkman hack your account?

Just gotta take a half day. In illinois you have to give full time employees a week of sick days now. You cannot demand a reason. Mental health days count. Take a mental health half day. Not required to give notice for that. I've got fake unlimited pto. I call it fake because unlimited pto makes employees take less time off than giving them a set amount of days. That said, I'll be using a day Friday on short notice and a leave/sign off early day on Thursday.

Working from home permanently has its perks. Thanks covid.

The dodgers won 106 games with the best run differential in baseball by far. Cards have worse run differential in baseball and had a flukey hot streak. Its not even close.

That's not how the calculation worked. It wasn't against what they replaced. It was projected war lost from injured players. Safe to say robert projection was too low but the rest were reasonable

I mean, there were multiple pieces written about lost WAR due to injuries this year. I think those pieces undersold the Sox a bit but the Sox weren't even in the top half of baseball in lost production. Yankees and Toronto lost more and won similar amount of games with a tougher schedule. Every team had bad injuries this year. This wasn't a white Sox problem. Sox rotation was, for the most part, really healthy.